# Mrs. Thomas Lee Shippen

- By: Hugh Bridport (born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868)
- Date: ca. 1816
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. (6.7 x 5.4 cm) oval
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Natalie Brooks Sears Shippen and William Brush Shippen
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=2788)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/bfd9225b530aff08bfee2a1857731714.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Elizabeth Carter Farley was the granddaughter of Colonel William Byrd III of Virginia, and a cousin of the Civil War general Robert E. Lee. Her second husband was Thomas Lee Shippen (1765-1798) of Philadelphia, a confidante of Thomas Jefferson. Two of her children, Thomas Lee Shippen and William Shippen, were painted in miniature by James Peale, and are in this collection as well \[see 1999.87.4, and 1999.87.5\].